(guiltier, guiltiest)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you feel guilty, you feel unhappy because you think that you have done something wrong or have failed to do something which you should have done.
I feel so guilty, leaving all this to you...
When she saw me she looked guilty.
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ about n
• guiltily
He glanced guiltily over his shoulder.
ADV: ADV with v
2.
Guilty is used of an action or fact that you feel guilty about.
Many may be keeping it a guilty secret...
I leave with a guilty sense of relief.
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
If someone is guilty of a crime or offence, they have committed that crime or offence.
They were found guilty of murder...
He pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm.
ADJ: oft ADJ of n/-ing
4.
If someone is guilty of doing something wrong, they have done that thing.
He claimed Mr Brooke had been guilty of a 'gross error of judgment'...
They will consider whether or not he has been guilty of serious professional misconduct.
ADJ: oft ADJ of n/-ing